OXFORD MOVEMENT

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20905, 12 July 1933, Page 3

OXFORD MOVEMENT

CELEBRATION OP THE CENTENARY. REQUIEM FOR EARLY LEADERS. Prayers for the souls of the leaders of the Oxford Movement were offered at a Requiem in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown, at 6.30 a.m. yesterday. The vicar of the parish (the Rev. L. Harold) was the celebrant and Messrs Carter and Hill were the servers at the altar. The choir was assisted by a number of priests and the congregation was drawn from many city and suburban parishes. De Profundis, which served for the Introit set the note of solemnity to the whole of Merbecke's setting for the service. The liturgy was that which was set forth by the diocesan authorities at the beginning of the war, with special collect, epistle, and gospel, and suffrages for the departed. The sequence was, "Let saints on earth in concert sing," and the offertory, "They whose course on earth is o'er." Announcing that the alms would be given to the centenary thanksoffering for foreign missions, the vicar then read a list of names of those for whom the congregation was asked to pray. Leaders of the revival:—John Keble, John Henry Newman, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Alexander Heriot Macon* ochie, Arthur Henry Stanton, Robert William Dolling. Founders of religious sisterhoods:—Lucy Pusey, Marion Hughes, Harriott Monsell, and others. The service then proceeded, Archdeacon F. N. Taylor assisting the celebrant at the communion. After the concluding intercessions . and before the final blessing, "Soldiers who are Christ's below," was sung. Mrs H. C. Hewland was at the organ and the women of the parish provided a light breakfast in the parish, hall after the service. The diocesan commemoration includes a series of mid-day addresses at the cathedral. On Monday the Rev. R. de Lambert lectured on Charles Simeon, a leader of the evangelical revival which preceded the Oxford Movement Yesterday Mr S. R- Cuming dealt with the life and work or Father Dolling, a typical slum wriest of the Anglo-Catholic school. To-day the Rev. J. F. Feron will speak- on John Wesley. The lectures, which are limited to 20 minutes' duration, are given at 12.30 and repeated at 1.30, thus fitting in with the varying lunch hours of business people. There will be no lecture to-morrow, as the Bishop's committee does not wish to have any function at the same tune as the community singing, which is so popular and is serving so useful a purpose. The last lecture of the senei will be on Friday, when Archdeacon F. N. Taylor will speak on "The Leaders of the Oxford Movement, Keble, Newman, and Pusey." . .

A PIONEER IN THE MOVEMENT. ROBERT DOLLING'S WORK. i The work of Robert Radcliffe Dolling, one of the pioneers of the Oxford Movement, was the subject of an address given in the Christchurch Cathedral by Mr S. R. Cuming, yesterday. One of the most remarkable things about the Oxford Movement, or the Catholic Revival in the Church of England, the speaker began, was the way in which it had appealed, and waa still appealing, to men and women of all classes and stations in life. It was a great mistake to say that, it had always been academic, appealing, to the cultivated rather ,ihan to the great body of the people. Its magnificent work amongst the poor of England was one of its glories. ~ ■. Dolling was one of the pioneers of that work. The story of his w&rk at the Winchester College Mjssiajtt. J* Portsmouth, formed one of the brigntest pages in the whole history of the Anglican communion. The slums ox Portsmouth were among the-ydrstin England, and in the midst of themJHua rollicking, warm-hearted Irish priest, radiating sympathy and understanding, yet never losing his hold upon the realities of life, did marvellous work. He collected £50,000 for it, built halls and day schools, and a great basilican church. Every day 50 or 60 men sat down to a dinner .at nit parsonage table. He swept away w* haunts of vice, reduced the* publichouses, and headed a successful movementfor shorter hours in the shops. The Anglo-Catholic faith and wor» ship were the inspiration of all tbli work, said Mr Cuming.. He had encountered and triumphed over all sorts of opposition. It was a great tribute to the Winchester College authorities that they stood -loyally bj him all through. He resigned aft** a difference with the Bishop of Wtaj Chester, though all Portsmouth begged him to stay, and the Nonconformis* chapels held prayer meetings for hhm He went to St Saviour's, Poplar, whert he died in 1902.